Afghan Warlords Given Stud Missiles by U.S.

Oh yes -- our tax dollars HARD at work:

From THE CONFLUENCE:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - CIA agents are offering the potency drug Viagra and other gifts to win over Afghan warlords in the US-led war against Taliban insurgents, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

Alright, why does the CIA hate Afghani women and goats so much they have to hand over viagra to warlords?

"Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people — whether it’s building a school or handing out Viagra,” one CIA operative who has worked in Afghanistan was quoted as saying.

The aging chieftains often have up to four wives and are open to the Viagra pill as a way to “put them back in an authoritative position,” said another official...

Life is now much more HARD in the Afghani resistance. It seems giving out birthcontrol to hapless burkha-clad women is a problem, but giving viagra to their nasty old husbands is strategy to win the war on terrorism. If most of these old dudes have at least four wives and some of them are young woman, I’d just like to say, way to go CIA, we’ve just upped the ante on torture policies.

If you really want to dig a little deeper into this, just go to the comments section of the Al Arabiya News Channel. Yes, I went there.

Beacon of wisdom and light Alamgir-Pakistan posted this:

for the deprived american female soldiers who probably masturbated…ooops masterminded this operation. I’ve heard planeloads of blonde “women rights” activists and reporters are available in the Afghani beauty parlours and ministries fighting over picks of native flavour. They get off on the idea of “sleeping with the enemy”… ha! what else can you expect from the daughters of the west. they are the civilised ones after all.

Jamal equates it with suicide-bombing:

WHEN U ARE FIGHTING UR ENEMY,U WILL USE ANY WEAPONS THAT CAN HELP U TO DEFEAT UR ENEMY.IF KIDNAPPING,SUICIDES,CAR EXPLOSIONS,BLOWING UP HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS,KILLING WOMEN,AND DOING DRUGS IS LEGAL FOR TALIBAN TO USE,VIAGRA IS LEGAL TO THE U.S. TOO.

The BBC outlines this charming anecdote:

In one case, a 60-year-old warlord with four wives was given four pills and four days later detailed Taliban movements in return for more.

“Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people,” the Post quoted one agent as saying.

“Whether it’s building a school or handing out Viagra.”

‘Silver bullet’

The newspaper said the use of Viagra had to be handled sensitively as the drug was not always known about in rural areas.

It quoted one retired agent as saying: “You didn’t hand it out to younger guys, but it could be a silver bullet to make connections to the older ones.”

In the case of the 60-year-old warlord - the head of a clan in southern Afghanistan who had not co-operated - operatives saw he had four younger wives.

The pills were explained and offered. Four days later the agents returned.

“He came up to us beaming,” the Post quoted an agent as saying. “He said, ‘You are a great man.’

“And after that we could do whatever we wanted in his area.”

Ah, my tax dollars at work. Maybe the Obama Adminstration will send Pastor Rick Warren over there to give them copies of “The Purpose Driven Life” as phase two of this all out assault on the Taliban.